About Discussions

Use the Discussion feature to exchange ideas and communicate in a common location on subjects relevant to the participating resources. This feature is available from the following locations:

You must have certain access rights to use discussions from these locations.

Note: See the Project Management User Guide for more information.

Discussion Terminology

The following provides definitions of the standard message board terms you will see when using discussions:

Topic

A topic is the top-level grouping for a message. Topics consist of a topic name (subject) and participants. Each topic can contain any number of threads.

Thread

A thread consists of a message and all of the responses to it.

Message

A message is the conversation part of a thread.

Reply

A reply is a response to a message, or to another response.